I am not going to dress this up or beat around the bush about it: the parallels between the civil rights struggle by black Americans in the 1960s and the present-day struggle for autism civil rights is inescapable. Among other similarities, there are groups that can loosely be referred to as “uncle Toms” in both camps that listen to the lies that the enemy tells them as negation effort. Continue Reading

I will tell you this much right off the bat, in case you have not already noticed it or this is your first visit here (in which case, welcome): I am not a fan of Blizzard Entertainment or the stories they put into their products. I have found that the Horde’s leaders mainly consist of dickheads with whom Blizzard play a game of seeing how much obnoxious, arrogant shit they can get away with whilst maintaining slavish devotion from fanboys. I am finding the current implementations of the game so irritating in so many ways that I am starting to feel that Dave Kosak should be fired. So with that frame of reference, let us explore my opinions of the latest World Of Warcraft expansion, Mists Of Pandaria. Continue Reading

As much as I gripe about the business and programming practises of the software company known as Blizzard Entertainment, I have to hand it to them where marketing skills and revenue stream diversity are concerned. Like any good company in a deregulated economy, Blizzard are well aware that they cannot make anywhere near the profit they do if they restrict their trade solely to software. So novels, keyrings with authenticators, novelties based on the games, and even digital pieces that can be added to the games, are offered in their online store. Continue Reading

So, as luck and a bad script would have it, I went to Googoo and searched for information concerning whether there was a limit to the number of Monk characters one could have when the new expansion for World Of Warcraft goes live in a couple of days. That led me to this article by Carmelo M. on the Clever Musings site. Continue Reading

Films exist that depict the reality of life on the autistic spectrum to one degree or another. None of them were made as such on purpose. When a film designed by accountants or individuals who likely have never met a psychologist or an autistic adult tries to depict being autistic, the result is always such a slap in the face that it makes the result impossible for me to watch. Continue Reading

This afternoon, I had the privilege of reading an article by one Irfan Yusuf (you can find it here) about the thuggery that marred Sydney’s central business district recently. I am not going to quote all of what he wrote here. If you have any interest at all in the complex reactions to incidents like the Sydney riot, then I ask you to read his article. However, there is an aspect of his article that I do want to comment about. It can best be summed up by the following quote (mistype preserved): Continue Reading

I will be frank, and brief, about this. I do not publish every non-spam comment I get. Do not get me wrong, I publish all of the ones that are positive, like the majority, or those that are constructive if disagreeable. Sometimes, I will even allow publication of those I find reprehensible so I can pick them to pieces in response. But ones that have no point and basically exist only to say “I am automatically right, you are automatically wrong” or the like, I look at enough in order to identify before I throw them in the trash where I never see them again. Continue Reading